Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-28
THE MAKE READY IDEA

THE MAKE READY" IDEA.
We have steadily held that the way to
locate newcomers in any section of North
ern California is to make ready the spots
they want. The more this is considered
the stronger is the conviction that it is the
one sound policy; absolutely condition
precedent to gaining new population.
In this day, men fleeing from arctic rigors
at the East are not those who wish to en-
ter country where the whole work of pre-
pairing home has to be done by them
We might as well come down to a realiza-
ton of the truth in this respect now as
later on. If the people of this section ex-
pect to reap, rs have our southern breth-
rem, they must sow. How? Prepare lands
and lots for the home seeker so that he can
buy out of hand and begin to live" at
once. Not one in ten will be content to
grub, and clear, and breakup, and ditch.
and scratch along for four or five years be-
fore he can see daylight The class of men
coming to US now don't want frontier life,
they want society, comfort, and to begin to
SOW, il not to reap, the first year.
So, then, the lands and lots must be made
ready in country and in town. In colony
tracts the avenues must be laid out; re-
serves must be set apart, not merely staked
and plated, but put in fair order; water
brought to every tract; some houses built,
the more the better; clearance of the land
effected; roads to market guaranteed, and
then the investors can nominate their
prices with perfect assurance of getting
them. But in addition, our towns and orr
cities must be improved and adorned, and
no longer be offensive to the eyes.
Remarking upon this subject the San
Francisco Chronicle, which has examined
into the question. warmly approves the
make ready" idea that this journal, in
common with others, has so persistently
advanced it adds forcible reasoning when
it says:
The country or State most richly endowed
with natural advantages might be expected to
udkc tilt hOSL progress ana 10 nave the great
est measure of material prosperity. II would be
only reasonable TO suppose for example thai
our own state should progress much more
rapidly than Minnesota or Dakota but the fact
that 1t does not shows that the bounties of
nature do not suffice TO build a State but that il
requires something more. What is the factor
hacking to the development of California;
II Is because her people have been too
well satisfied with themselves, too easily CON
tented ana too Indifferent to the future $ 5
The question OF the present moment is What
m IA
state and build it up What steps can be prom
eriy taken to induce the right kind of inmigrs-
tloh, ana what inducements can We offer to i'm
migrants TO Keep them here when they have
. Gomez
1t is stated upon good authority that from 20
10 to uo,OO0 people from the older States of the
= Union have made their arrangements for com
ing to Caiiiornis next winter. What have we
now or can we have by that time to offer them
rs an lndueement for them to make their homes
mere. nat advantage. except in point of eli
mate, can they expect TO get by leaving their
EeIt-buiit. Wel-draiued Well-paVetl cities their
neat, home-like villages, their well-oriered,
thriving, industrious and peaceful country
towns, and coming to Calitom az
Now 1t cannot be expect that these people
rom the East will be satisfied Sc easily, and
elhe consequence viii be that many of them will
come, stay u little while. and turn around and
50 oacs, thereafter to be outspoken in their
nenuneiations, or at any rate TO damn Califor-
ma with faint praise. Unless we can do some
ohlng TO make our state attractive, Interesting
ana pleasing we shall look in vain for any
1aiSe aceesslons TO our permanent population
Inc man VINO has disposed of his home and
business at The East and brought his little
fortune and household here come here to find n
hoiae 70 lind men and women who have energy
and enterprise enough to constitute a thriving
ana orderly community; to find towns and cities
whose municipal affairs arc well-or,,eTea and
Nhose pliolle Improvements are worthy Of the
nam. 70 iild 8 cheerful hospitality extended
20 Rim aud his and hearty welcome: aud
1nely, 10 lind things moving and stirring ~
they should be in every new country MOI si,nl,
llssfd ats-s+a 4.
MeTe than one OF + interior papers have
eausht TINS laea, ana We cannot do better than
10 quote tom one, the RECoeD-INIoN, which
says; Inc Way 10 prepare for immigrants is
not TO raise the price of land, but 70 lsy ont
Tracts. reserve space for public grounds bring
water oihe land. erect needed huildirgs: these
are the methods OF investment that pire the
neW-eeneT confidence" We venture 70 add
thst money spent at home vii not be thrown
swsF, A siew hinge on the front gate new
cs.st OF pant on the house and barn, fences put
INTO repair, and ell the details looked to which
makes the ditiefeuce between care and neglect
hsVe teesr erect Aad tend strongly TO relieve
feeling which tulable-slown sheds and harms
and rusty, unpsiuted houses must give linn.
ihe crying uead OF California is for both in
diyidual and concerted effort and enterprise
We need each 10 reform himself. instead of seek
ing 10 reform his neighbor, and If we would
each exercise IS much time and strength in ex-
tracing collar from our pockets for
public purposes AS Nse Go in trying to get into
our neighoor's pockets, the question of public
improvements --tuiu DC solved.
II Caiiorlians want California to ~ a great
and hourishlog state it Is hics. time
for them TO realize that they and thes alone
san make Il such The experiment Of let ing il
5.s ke Itself rich aud prosperous has been sred
.,T i'ulnoer If years, and is success Is PCS so
sssttel1Ilg as 10 warrant longer continuance Of
tie method. We can blow our own tr,Iulpes a. !
loud $ rs We Pl ;.se bit the fact rem sins tngt
ciAc- states, without t:;he OF oar natural sd
Tautsees, have far outStT4pped Us IN population.
III progress and prosperity
Ihestory Is told Of Il eompsny of tour
ISIS. VINO q few days ago went norfhward to
,ook for sstes f,T colony and other purposes.
Driving thsougli a small town on very
hos day, the entire male population vas
5gslsl flaming isself IN front of the grocery
Inc store, Ike saleen aNd the Justices Office
N the .aain street The broiling sun bea1
,itilessly upon the lsw rough roofs and
larrow she'd awnings sIliie no; a tree or
hrub, or ihe shelseriag ssloaS Of a vine or
cal, ner 4 dEap Of hgbl'Iins Rais, were 10